Train wreck

The main characters in Orphan Train are Molly, Vivian, and Dutchy. Molly is a seventeen year old girl who is in and out of Orphan homes due to her dead father and mother who turned to drugs. She battle with jarring foster parents and siblings.She is hopeful to find someone who will love and accept her for who she is. Vivian is a ninety-one year old woman who Molly did some community service for. Although through time, Vivian and Molly created a heartwarming bond like no other. The final main…

Archibald Prize winner for 2013 is Hugo by Del Kathryn Barton. It's a watercolor, gouache and acrylic painting on canvas of the Australian actor Hugo Weaving. It's a large painting sized, 200cm x 180cm. The painting is a portrait of Weaving holding a cat with a weeping lilli pilli and a intricate and colorful background. Weavings facial expressions seem serious but natural and he gazes off to his right. Barton painted the portrait in her studio over 5 months and 4 sittings in 2013. Barton…

In “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway depicts two lovers faced with a serious problem: unexpected pregnancy. During the time period of this story, the early twentieth century, abortion was dangerous, taboo, and morally wrong. The girl is undecided for obvious reasons, while the man doesn’t want the responsibility of a child. In this short story, the American man portrays a persuasive attitude to convince his girl, Jig, to have an abortion. Ernest Hemingway constructs a persuasive…

The Savannah River “originates at the confluence of the Seneca and Tugaloo rivers in Hart County in eastern Georgia” (Seabrook). The river flows from the upper piedmont region of Georgia down to the Georgia coast where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean (Seabrook). The Savannah River forms the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina. The Savannah has been of major importance for the survival of people in both Georgia and South Carolina. The mouth of the Savannah is where the city of Savannah…

1. Public Electric Vehicle Sharing Program (PEVSP) 1.1 Electric Vehicle The second initiative of this scenario is to establish a Public Electric Vehicle Sharing Program (PEVSP). BBRT aims to change San Francisco’s travel pattern from driving to walking, bicycling and transit. However, there are still about 350,000 private vehicles in the city. Even they are not using as usual; they are a huge potential emission source. PEVSP is a way to replace these existing internal combustion vehicles to…

For many years adoption has been the subject of both novels and nonfiction writing. In recent years, The Orphan Train, The Book Thief, Cider House Rules, The Child Called It, and The Lost Boy have gained attention for their portrayal of adoption. Historically, such authors as Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, and Louisa May Alcott (Little Men) show both positive and negative experiences of being adopted. The book that I would like to write would focus on the adoption experience as told by the…

despite the hustling of the city’s anti-social inhabitants the gut-wrenching smell of hot dogs and smoke, and the boring view of towering concrete buildings. People scurry like ants through the maze of streets attempting to make it to their subway train on time. Hundreds of people fill the streets, creating a wall that is nearly impossible to push through. They look straight ahead, making a point not to talk to anyone. Others have their noses in their phones and a coffee in their hands. People…

way to the 5 train in grand central. While in the train headed to the Bronx we talked and laughed for a while. While we were talking I notice this elderly man sitting on the seats diagonal from me struggling to get up from his seat. My mind told me to help him but by the time I went and got up I noticed that some other individuals helped the man get up to get off the train. After they helped the man get off the train immediately after the elderly man falls with his legs in the train and the…

Mega Bus have quit a few advantages for a company that recently entered into the market. Mega bus has learnt from past mistakes of other companies that have been operating in the US transport industry. A feasibility study carried out reveled possible sources of these failures. For any business entering a new market, it is easy to avoid doing things that other companies have done to land them into problems. For example, Mega bus has been able to analyze the events that led to companies like…

Management of Working Capital Case Study: “George’s Trains” Based on the video, George is running a very profitable business. Yet, George is conscious and knows that one is in a MBA Managerial Finance class. George feels that one is able to address and give contributable guidance on his working capital practices. George approaches you with a few questions related on how to advance on his working capital practices. For example, what are the potential dangers in Capital Budging practices,…